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When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-year-old Danny determines to look after their elderly pig and ramshackle garden. Here, on the ragged edge of a blighted new town, Danny and his Indian girlfriend Surinder create a fragile haven from the enclosing world of racist neighbours and stifling families, a summer's refuge from the precariousness of their future.
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A coming-of-age story as strange and surprising, in its way, as THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (New York Times)
Cowan's writing is reminiscent of Roddy Doyle's in his ability to recreate the intense emotions of youth. (The Good Book Guide)
A first novel of extraordinary poise and accomplishment, treating a boy's coming of age amid the squalid realities of the new British underclass with a delicacy and lyricism which is both gripping and moving (Michael Dibdin)
The detail is immaculately recorded; the effect is heartbreaking (Louisa Young, Sunday Times)
[A] wholly satisfying book, quietly beautiful and inescapably ominous (David Buckley, Observer)
Beautifully evoked ... Cowan writes with a deceptive simplicity (Amanda Craig, The Times)
A wonderful first novel (Christopher Hart, Daily Telegraph)
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Cowan's writing is reminiscent of Roddy Doyle's in his ability to recreate the intense emotions of youth. (The Good Book Guide)
A first novel of extraordinary poise and accomplishment, treating a boy's coming of age amid the squalid realities of the new British underclass with a delicacy and lyricism which is both gripping and moving (Michael Dibdin)
The detail is immaculately recorded; the effect is heartbreaking (Louisa Young, Sunday Times)
[A] wholly satisfying book, quietly beautiful and inescapably ominous (David Buckley, Observer)
Beautifully evoked ... Cowan writes with a deceptive simplicity (Amanda Craig, The Times)
A wonderful first novel (Christopher Hart, Daily Telegraph)
Cowan's beautifully drawn, multi award-winning first novel of love in the hostile climate of modern British society
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- PublisherHarcourt
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0151002185
- ISBN 13 9780151002184
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages213
- EditorWillen Drenka
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